NEC Adds Application Awareness to HYDRAstor Deduplication Improving Ratios by Up to 130 Percent

Optimized Deduplication for Symantec and CommVault Backup and Archive
Applications Maximizes Efficiency and Cuts Storage Capacity Costs
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(Business Wire)--
NEC Corporation of America, a premier provider of IT, network and identity
management solutions, today announced the addition of application-aware
deduplication to NEC`s future-evolving grid storage platform, NEC HYDRAstor.
HYDRAstor application-aware deduplication further optimizes data deduplication
efficiency by analyzing incoming data streams and filtering application level
metadata to eliminate its negative impact on deduplication rates.

HYDRAstor application-aware data deduplication offers greater insight into the
customer`s data stream by analyzing the user data independently from application
metadata, resulting in increased storage efficiency, faster backups and
archiving along with reduced costs. According to benchmark tests, the addition
of application-aware deduplication for specific applications improved
deduplication ratios by up to 70 percent on incremental backups and up to 130
percent on complete weekly backup cycles.

"As companies continue to experience tremendous data growth, deduplication has
become a must-have in backup," said analyst Lauren Whitehouse, Enterprise
Strategy Group. "NEC`s HYDRAstor has differentiated itself in the secondary
storage market through its scale-out architecture and distributed deduplication
processing. The addition of application-aware deduplication, adds another layer
of optimization, enabling improved reduction ratios without any impact on
performance."

HYDRAstor's global deduplication already cuts data storage capacity needs by 95
percent or more across the enterprise and delivers up to 50 percent more
efficient deduplication than siloed VTLs and appliances where deduplication
scope is limited to the physical and logical boundaries of each appliance. With
the addition of application-aware deduplication, NEC now offers customers even
greater efficiency, flexibility and cost reductions for their growing data
needs. The latest generation of HYDRAstor is now application-aware and optimized
for CommVault Simpana and Symantec NetBackup with support for additional
applications coming soon.

"Application-aware deduplication is the smartest approach to eliminating
redundant data and CommVault is working closely with NEC to offer joint
customers the best solution for their backup and archiving needs," said David
West, vice president of marketing and business development for CommVault.
"Employing deduplication within different levels of the environment helps ensure
that our customers receive the flexibility and scalability they need in a
storage solution, as well as the cost and operational efficiency benefits gained
from managing deduped data throughout its lifecycle."

The addition of application-aware deduplication to the HYDRAstor storage
platform is included under HYDRAstor`s software maintenance agreement and is
offered at no additional cost. Existing customers can immediately enjoy the
benefits of higher deduplication ratios and improved efficiency, maximizing the
return on their original investment.

"We are constantly evolving our HYDRAstor grid promise with a commitment to
product excellence and customer satisfaction," said Gideon Senderov, director,
product management and technical marking, NEC Corporation of America. "With the
addition of application-aware deduplication, NEC continues to deliver storage
grids with greater efficiency, performance and independent scalability to its
established and growing customer base."

HYDRAstor is designed to be future-evolving, meaning that nodes of any
generation (previous, current, or future) will work seamlessly together. This
heterogeneous feature of the HYDRAstor grid platform allows the storage grid to
evolve with new greener, denser, faster technologies-without having to start a
new grid system and without data migration, provisioning, forklift upgrades,
application downtimes and data loss. HYDRAstor's unique "community of smart
nodes" enables IT to non-disruptively ride both technology and growth curves so
that a single storage grid can continually evolve with greener, denser, and
faster nodes.

NEC's HYDRAstor is part of NEC's Dynamic IT Infrastructure that includes
servers, storage, virtual desktop solutions, and system software, which are
smart, flexible, adaptive to change, scalable, resilient, and continuously
evolving. Along with NEC's broad range of services, the NEC Dynamic IT
Infrastructure provides an ideal platform for virtualization, consolidation and
business continuity and is ideal for driving greater value and efficiencies in
solutions for physical security, law enforcement, emergency response, travel and
entertainment, education, high performance computing, and business. This type of
infrastructure allows IT organizations to move forward confidently and meet
changing and growing business needs in an efficient manner.

HYDRAstor with added application-aware deduplication is available now and will
be showcased at Storage Decisions, booth 120, from June 1-2, in Chicago. For
more information about the HYDRAstor HS8 Series, NEC's grid storage platform,
please visit www.hydrastor.com, email hydrastor@necam.com, or call us toll-free
at 866-NEC-FAAN (866-632-3226), international +1-408-844-1299.

About NEC Corporation of America

NEC Corporation of America is a leading technology provider of network, IT and
identity management solutions. Headquartered in Irving, Texas, NEC Corporation
of America is the North America subsidiary of NEC Corporation. NEC Corporation
of America delivers technology and professional services ranging from server and
storage solutions, IP voice and data solutions, optical network and microwave
radio communications to biometric security, virtualization and digital cinema
solutions. NEC Corporation of America serves carrier, SMB and large enterprise
clients across multiple vertical industries. For more information, please visit
http://www.necam.com/dynamicIT.

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owners. © 2009 NEC Corporation of America.

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or
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